Best stories & feelings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.”

Want States Stories Feelings Care United United States I Care

Author:Diego Luna

“For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.”

People Stories Feelings Performing Rapper

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.”

Thinking Stories Feelings Would Be Interesting Behinds Roots Performances Curiosity Documents Live Performance Interesting Stories Musicality

Author:Michael Rapaport

“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.”

World Needs Reason Stories Feelings Hands Sound Known Messages Ultimate Prosperity Limitation Remembered Reason Why Contentment Dictator Snaps

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.”

Feels Stories Feelings Would Be Age Century Scene Medieval

Author:Oliver Stone

“I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.”

Feels Should Ideas Enough Moments Stories Feelings Together Courses Bits Interesting Emotion Information Scene Shapes Being True That Moment Arcs Feels Right Moment Of Truth

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”

People Ends Facts Stories Feelings Father Painting Please Letters Died Father Died Please Me

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.”

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mean Country Facts Stories Feelings Memories Fiction Happened Findings Distance Details Versions Being True Conquer Paradise Wilderness Transformed Sad Story

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.”

Stories Feelings Fiction Short Story

Author:Tom Bailey

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

People Knows Feels Should Mind Stories Feelings Happens Would Be Able Sides Emotion Needed Capable Sitting Concerned Tables Oneself Intellect Noble Affected Colossal

Author:John Ruskin

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"”

“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.”

Source: Wild Talents

“There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.”

Stories Feelings Written Finished

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”

Humans Stories Feelings Pleasure Strange Involved Accounts Ghost Our Love Craving Ghost Stories

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.”

Knows Way Feels Different Real Stories Shows Feelings Hands Happens Care Opportunity Voice Strange Weakness Responsible Different Ways Ownership I Care

Author:Lauren Graham

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Character Stories Feelings Humanity Teach Lonely Fictional Character

Author:Isabel Allende

“Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.”

Men Art Stories Feelings Earth Sun Eternal Built Ancient Patterns Admire Charm Charming Animated

Author:Marie Bashkirtseff

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.”

Needs Writing Stories Feelings Four Wall Four Walls

Author:Doris Betts

“I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.”

People Thinking Way Feels Humans Book Stories Feelings Reality Reading My Own Behinds Fantasy Conditions Surface Gaps Human Condition Fantasy And Reality

Author:Signe Baumane

“I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.”

Stories Feelings Joy Alive Imagine Wake Up

Author:Hilary Swank

“I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.”

Way Stories Feelings Term Highest Hunts Insisting

Author:George Saunders

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